This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SELLMEYER, SUER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XNB.2ACI/419 Message Board Post: Seeking formation about SELLMEYER family from Ray and Lafayette Counties in Missouri. Husband Henry Fredrick SELLMEYER, Wife Caroline (SUER)- both born in Germany. Believe he immigrated abt 1870. Don't know if they were married or not. He died at age 97 aft 1935; Caroline died March or May 5, 1891. Children - there were 13. I know only about the following: 1. Martha (Mattie) - b 14 Apr 1874.1st husband was William Endicott; 2nd husband was A.T. Atkisson or Atkinson. Lived in Drexel, Bates Co., MO. 2. Minnie - b. abt 1880, married Alvis R. West; lived in Leavenworth, KS. 3. Annie - married unknown Wilmer/Willmer, daughter Charlotte. Lived in Marlborough, MO. 4. Emil - drowned in Missouri River 5. Lena Eva (my grandmother) - b: 30 Nov. 1886; married Charles A. Lyon. Lived in Kansas City, then Hickman Mills, Jackson Co., MO. 6. Amelia - married George Wipperman, children Merle (uncertain spelling) and Herbert; lived on the family farm in Wellington MO. 7. Grover - b: 1889; d: 1958. Married unknown, daughter Lillian. 8. Lalah "Babe" - youngest of children. 1st marriage to unknown Roberts, son Ambrose. 2nd marriage to John Brakel. 9. Another brother drowned in the Missouri River 10. A sister and her two young children died of abt 1920